Black Market: Dispatches - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
The Tunnels of Gaza
Suffering under economic blockade, Gazans use an illegal network of tunnels to smuggle in goods to survive. But the tunnels are under attack from Israel and Egypt.
Kamikaze Gas Smugglers
Taking advantage of Venezuela's subsidized gas, Colombian smugglers known as kamikazes eek out a precarious living by smuggling this highly explosive commodity.
Dark Web
A secret part of the Internet is revolutionizing drug dealing.
Syrian Refugee Girls
Desperate young women fleeing the Syrian war are being trafficked into the sex trade under the guise of religion.
Poaching Pangolin
The world's most trafficked mammal may go extinct before most people know what it is.
Sugar Babies
A new kind of dating blurs the line between prostitution and romance.
Cheap Whites
With their economy in decline and a simmering war with Russia, Ukraine's citizens depend on smuggling contaminated, illegal cigarettes into the EU for survival.
Crime Towers
Scammers setup shop for their criminal enterprises inside London's public housing.
Vietnam's Transgender Underground
Discriminated against and shunned, Vietnam's trans community turns to illegal hormone and cosmetic treatments.
Underground Fighting
In Japan, young gangs are looking to break away from the older Yakuza through underground fighting.
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